EP2392818A1 - Système de mesure de déformations au niveau de pales d'aérogénérateurs au cours d'essais statiques - Google Patents
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- F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
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- This invention relates to the static tests performed to wind turbine blades for certification and other purposes and in particular to the systems used for measuring strain in said tests.
- This invention is intended to the solution of said problems.
- a strain measuring system of wind turbine blades during the performance of static tests comprising an equipment for measuring the strain at multiple locations in mono-mode optical fibres using Rayleigh scattered light, said mono-mode optical fibres being attached to the blade subjected to said tests for obtaining high spatial resolution measurements of the blade strain during said tests.
- a static test of a wind turbine blade shall be understood as any test carried out applying a load to a wind turbine blade attached to a rigid structure in a test bench.
- the optical fibres are placed whether in a longitudinal direction or in a non-longitudinal direction or in a non-linear shape in given blade sections.
- the system allows obtaining the strain measurements in different locations along the blade for a better adaptation to different requirements.
- the system comprises four optical fibres placed, respectively, along the blade leading edge, the blade trailing edge, the blade upper cap and the blade lower cap.
- the system comprises four optical fibres placed, respectively, along the blade leading edge, the blade trailing edge, the blade upper cap and the blade lower cap.
- the optical fibres are bonded to the outer skin of the blade, into grooves in the outer skin of the blade or embedded between two structural laminates of the blade.
- the system allows obtaining the strain measurements in different locations in the transversal section of the blade for a better adaptation to different requirements.
- a typical wind turbine blade may have a length between 20 and 60 meters or more and it is constructed with composite materials such as glass-reinforced plastics (GRP).
- GRP glass-reinforced plastics
- a wind turbine blades strain measurement system in static tests comprises:
- Said equipment makes use of a known technology for effecting high-spatial resolution distributed strain measurement in optical fibres using Rayleigh scattered light and particularly in an unaltered, commercial grade, mono-mode optical fibre at multiple locations by measuring the local shift in the Rayleigh spectral shift.
- said technology effects a comparison of the spectrum before and after loading the fibre using a complex cross-correlation of the spectra corresponding to load and zero-load conditions.
- This technology currently allows achieving a strain resolution in the range of ⁇ 1 ⁇ and a spatial resolution of at least 0,5 mm. Further information about this technology can be found in US 6,545,760 .
- the system can include optical fibres 5 deployed longitudinally along the wind turbine blade 11 and optical fibres 7, 7' deployed in traverse and diagonal directions with respect to the blade longitudinal axis.
- the system will preferably comprise optical fibres 5 deployed longitudinally along at least the 50% of the blade length to provide the basic strain data required in static tests but optical fibres 7, 7' deployed in non-longitudinal directions may also be needed for providing additional or specific strain data in local areas.
- the system can also include, as shown in Figure 3 , optical fibres 9 including non-linear segments.
- optical fibres 9 including non-linear segments.
- a single optical fibre 9 can cover a big area of the blade 11 so that the number of single optical fibres can be reduced, minimizing the number of required acquisition channels in the equipment.
- the system will comprise optical fibres 5, 5', 5", 5"' deployed longitudinally along the leading edge 13, the trailing edge 15, the upper cap 17 and the lower cap 19 in at least the 50% of the blade length.
- buckling estimation procedures are based upon the processing of strain data coming from fibres installed on top of blade trailing edge panels.
- optical fibres running across the blade's longitudinal axis, running angled with regards to the blade's longitudinal axis, or combinations of some of the above-mentioned configurations may be needed.
- the optical fibres 5, 7, 9 are bonded to the outer skin 31 of the blade 11 by means of suitable bonding material 41 such as glue or a resin. Consequently the strains are measured on the outer skin of the blade.
- suitable bonding material 41 such as glue or a resin.
- the optical fibres 5, 7, 9 are bonded to the blade 11 in, respectively, grooves 51, 53 machined in outer skin 31 of the blade by means of suitable bonding material 41 such as glue or a resin. Consequently the strains are measured on the blade outer structural laminate 33.
- suitable bonding material 41 such as glue or a resin.
- the optical fibres 5, 7, 9 are embedded into the body of the blade 11 during its manufacturing process. They are bonded by means of a suitable bonding material 41 such as glue or a resin in a location between two structural laminates 33, 35 inside a single blade component.
- a suitable bonding material 41 such as glue or a resin
- the optical fibres 5, 7, 9 are embedded into the body of the blade 11 during its manufacturing process. They are embedded in a bonding layer 37 between two structural laminates 33, 35 of two blade components.
- the commercially-produced, standard optical fibre used as strain sensor in the present invention may have different coatings (acrylated, polyamide, ...) depending particularly of how it is attached to blade.
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